Naomi Osaka ignites a fight over the future of postgame news conferences

The policy was put in place in 1990 when the ATP Tour, which oversees the men’s worldwide tour, was formed and the Grand Slam committee wrote a new rule book for the four tennis slams. Bill Babcock, who wrote the rule book, said in an interview that the penalty of fining players was included because in the 1980s, as an executive with the previous governing body of men’s tennis, he had seen the value of a traveling press corps to promoting the sport.